Weekly Dev Update #85

28 January 2020 —Admin

Hey Y’all,

This week, our work was focused on fixing some issues discovered during internal testing of Session, as well as putting the finishing touches on rebranding the UI from Loki Messenger to Session.. We also made progress on the changes required for Lokinet version 0.7.0, which will fundamentally change the way we do DHT lookups and get router contacts — discussion can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/issues/1057 , https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/issues/1055

Loki Core

Wallet side changes for LNS
https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/1026
Add systemd notifications and watchdog support for lokid
https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/1022
Fix potential deadlock in lokid caused by blink transactions
https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/1021
Don’t use pool TX list from long polling in wallet
https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/1020

Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am – 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet: After extensive discussion and testing we identified some core issues with the existing large deployment on mainnet, as mentioned both above and in previous dev updates. We started fixing these issues last week, with a target of putting out a new Lokinet 0.7 release in the next week or two.

PR Activity:

Fix log level configurability (
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1061
)
Optimize lokid communication to request less data (
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1062
)
Fix a potential deadlock when attempt to remove queued paths (
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1064
)
Remove unused code (
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1066
)
Code improvement: refactor to rename single-character variable names (
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1069
)
Add support for running local loopback networks at 1/5 normal speed to allow running more processes at once on one machine (for local debugging) (
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1070
)
When starting up or restarting, try using existing random known routers before falling back to the bootstrap node (
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1071
)
Add router version (to enable routers to reject incompatible RCs) (
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1072
)
Introset blinding – encrypt introsets so that network participants can’t learn .loki addresses from introsets (work in progress, no PR yet)
Fix DHT traversal to consider all possible routers instead of already-connected routers (work in progress, no PR yet)